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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Oh, thanks for that link, Nancy. I will read about him.
Mary Winkler is the preacher's wife who killed her husband with a shotgun, got her girls and fled, was later found, arrested and her children went to her inlaws while she was in jail. She's the small, intimidated-acting little woman with the cap of shining brown hair, no make-up, kept her head down all the time, spoke barely in a whisper and her defense attorney brought out the streetwalker spike heels, the micromini skirt or costume of some kind??? and the long, long wig that her husband supposedly made her wear during sex. She wouldn't even say the words required to testify as I recall until her attorney "made" her. I don't know if she ever used the word sex but just alluded to it but maybe she did. She was so good at being a victim she could write books and teach classes. Every male totally believed her and none of the females did on the TV courtroom talk shows. It was a study in the gender gap. But she essentially walked. Got 30 or 90 days in a mental home and time served covered most of that or something. She was out free and had her kids back in no time. Total victim. Even the prosecutor was too intimidated by her fawnish mannerisms to go hard on her! She was GOOD at being a victim. Might really have been but hardly any female watching bought her story. She was the polar opposite of Jodi Arias. I mainly remember her Southern type accent and her "yessir" and "nosir" answers in a whisper and seeing mostly the top of her head during testimony. Oh, she was good. And she was kiting checks and some other kind of money things and many thought she killed her husband on the day he found out what kind of things she'd been doing with money and that she was about to be arrested for the bank fraud stuff. She said he had berated and shamed her in the way he'd treated her and one night she snapped when he did something or acted mean to the baby or something. She totally walked. |
Wow, I don't remember anything about her, I guess I never use to keep up with the stuff. I agree with you, it' seems like it would go better for her if she wasn't so darn argumentative with the prosecuting attorney, it sounds like she doesn't have a clue about being demure.